
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 97
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 97
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 97
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/911687981362286594 (23 September 2017)
2017
Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 5: "The Readiness to Work"
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“No greed was comparable to the appeal of self-sacrifice.”
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 143)
“We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building”
Section 47
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience—the knowledge that our mighty deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or "of those that are to be." We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds, in the opinion and imagination of others.